St. Petersburg State University
For about 300 years, St. Petersburg University has been advancing science, generating knowledge and training outstanding professionals. The University dates back to 1724, when Peter the Great founded it together with the Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 1989 the University was reorganized into Saint Petersburg University with three faculties: the Faculty of Philosophy and Law, the Faculty of History and Philology, the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics. By 1941, there were 10 faculties and 7 research institutes. Among the famous SPbU alumni are many world-famous people, in particular, Nobel Prize winners: physiologist Ivan Pavlov, biologist Ilya Mechnikov, physical chemist Nikolay Semyonov, physicists Lev Landau and Aleksandr Prokhorov, philosopher and economist Leonid Kantorovich.
Nowadays the University has more than 30,000 students, 323 specializations and 22 faculties.
The outstanding intellectual and academic environment of the oldest Russian university serves the basis for 25 resource centres that are now an integral part of the SPbU Research Park. The centres employ the experience, knowledge and research achievements of the previous generations. Each center covers a research area related to one of the four priority spheres defining the common University strategy. In particular, SPbU resource centres target the following areas:
- Nanotechnology and Materials Science
- Biomedicine and Human Health
- Information Systems and Technology
- Ecology and Nature Management
In 2009 St. Petersburg State University was granted thel status of a ‘unique scientific and educational complex, the oldest institutions of higher education in Russia being of great importance to the development of the Russian society’. SPbU was granted a privilege to set its own educational standards.
Address: Universitetskaya emb. 7/9, St. Petersburg, Russia, 199034
Web-site: http://english.spbu.ru